Elijah Burrell

"Burrell gives us the grit and spark, the immediacy, the beating heart of a place and its people, with all their magic, guts, grimness, and gusto." —Amy Gerstler

RECENT REVIEWS OF ELIJAH'S WORK

Publishers Weekly Booklife—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (Listed as Editor’s Pick)

Tupelo Quarterly—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (by Paulette Guerin)

Southwest Review—
Interview: Breaking the Quiet (by Sadie Shorr-Parks)

North American Review—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (by Laura Linart)

Kirkus Reviews—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (Verdict: “Get it”)

Columbia Daily Tribune—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (by Aarik Danielsen)

Harbor Review—
Book Review: Skies of Blur (by Savannah Admire)

RECENT POEMS ONLINE

Free State Review
Exponents / Opponents

Cutleaf
“Even the Best Records Have Gaps Between Tracks,” “Bottom of the Water,” & “Life in the Gush of Boasts”

Delta Poetry Review
“Séance in Subiaco, Arkansas,” “Do Not Drive into Smoke,” & “Exact Change Pantoum”

Harbor Review
“Blind Spots Hide Motorcycles Look Twice: A Matching Quiz”

River Mouth Review
“Unable to Sing”

AGNI
“Tonight, I Wish I Were a Dirt Dauber” & “Word Search”

Cider Press Review
“I'm Still Here”

 

RECENT PROSE ONLINE

The Hopkins Review
”Zoom Zoom into the Great American Dark” (Belletristic Essay/Multimedia Feature)

Southwest Review”Gleebombs & Humhearts: A Conversation with Abraham Smith” (Interview)

Southwest Review
”For the Sake of the Song: Townes Van Zandt Turns Seventy-Five”  (Some Words)

Southwest Review
”The Last Light of the Levee Camp: Frank Stanford Revisited”  (Essay Feature)

Consequence Magazine
”These Boots Were Really Heavy / There It Is: New and Selected Poems by Michael Casey” (Review)

Consequence Magazine
“Should Darkness Fall I'll Meet You There: The Explosive Expert's Wife by Shara Lessley" (Review)

The Rumpus
Elegy With Records on the Doorstep (Literary Nonfiction)

 

RECENT INTERVIEWS ONLINE

WAYO 104.3FM Radio Audio Interview: "The Trouble with Troubler: Interview with Elijah Burrell" 

Jefferson City Magazine
Exclusive Interview With Elijah Burrell by Megan Whitehead

KTEP NPR Audio Interview: "Words on a Wire" 

OTHER REVIEWS OF ELIJAH'S WORK

Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies— Book Review: TROUBLER an essay by Paulette Guerin

The Missouri Review—
"A Stirring in the Blood" an essay on The Skin of the River by Jen Hinst-White

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